DOWNES v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 59851.

30 T.C. 396 (1958)

H. COLLINGS DOWNES AND MARY FRANCES DOWNES, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed May 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee S. Jones, Esq., for the petitioners.

Arthur Clark, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioners' income tax for 1952 of $469.86. The issues to be decided are whether (1) the value of an automobile received as a prize in a drawing in connection with a charity campaign is taxable income, and (2) whether respondent properly disallowed deductions for automobile expenses of $200 and State cigarette taxes of $20. Respondent has abandoned his contention that petitioners were not entitled to a deduction claimed for convention...

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